Reflective activities

Reflective activities are a type of active learning which allow the student to build up a digital workbook of their responses, which can later be reviewed and downloaded as a PDF booklet. This can be used as a form of learning portfolio, which can be a powerful tool for primary learning, revision and assessment.

A reflective activity is typically an open-ended question with a free-form text area in which the student can give their thoughts.

Reflective activities can also offer hints to help the student construct their answer, or to act as a model answer to assess themselves. For revision purposes such hints can usefully link to relevant topics in the course to re-read.

You can also use question types like MCQ, MRQ and select-from-a-list to add more structure to reflective activities.

On the next page the final quiz of the course shows how essay type questions can still be used for self-assessment, with the addition of a model answer and a two-stage submission process.